It is particuarly of concern to our tractor trailer personal injury attorneys when big rigs strike and kill or injure pedestrians who are walking on the shoulder of a road or highway.

Tractor trailer drivers have been trained to drive carefully because they are driving a commercial vehicle that is very large and difficult to stop. Tractor trailer drivers should know that they need to slow down and move over when there is a person or vehicle on the shoulder of the road.

As personal injury attorneys in Virginia, we have handled tragic truck accident cases where a pedestrian or driver was hit and killed on a highway shoulder.

We had a wrongful death lawsuit case recently where a truck driver pulled over on I-95 in Virginia to inspect his truck. Another truck came along, failed to move over or slow down, and killed him instantly. His widow hired our wrongful death attorneys to represent her in the lawsuit.

Tractor trailer crashes are usually complex matters, and this one was no exception. The driver of the truck who caused the tragedy himself died after the accident, and our attorneys had to prove that he had suffered from an untreated medical condition that he knew about. The medical condition had led to him losing control of the vehicle and sideswiping and killing our client.